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Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 days agoThis comes down to ammo. if you have a bunch of guns they’re going to be useful until it runs out of ammo. If you are caching huge amounts of ammo and guns then yes that’s useful as long as you or your allies keep control of it. And caching ammo is harder than just buying a gun.
Like if your “military” is providing .223 ammo that .308 rifle isn’t going to be too useful for very long.
The consumerist stuff isn’t “bad” its just “not useful” to the point I’d say its “deliberate misdirection”.
Objection@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Right, when I said “buy a gun” obviously there was no implication that you should also buy the appropriate ammunition to use said gun. I’m just telling people to buy unloaded guns to put on their mantles to look at.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Are you telling them they should buy like 10 boxes of ammo and store them in different locations in case they lose access to a location?
No you just tell everyone to “buy a gun” like its a magic ward. You downvote comments that say “that’s not enough”
Objection@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I downvote your comments because they’re pointless nitpicking, not because you say “that’s not enough.” If you had said, “Also, train, join an org, and read theory” I wouldn’t be downvoting you. Instead you said, “lol buying a gun won’t fix anything” and dismissed the suggestion as “individualist consumerism.” That’s not “going further.”
I’m sorry that the pithy ending to a comment that was primarily about the history of Kent State was not a detailed outline of every possible tactic that could be effective at resisting.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, I agree, you really fucked up the ending to an otherwise good post.